Originally Posted By cmash95 personally I think they should have just put this restaurant in the current DTD rainforest cafe and had just one at AK. I think two of the same or similar restaurants will canabalize business.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub I just ventured to the T_Rex in K.C near the racetrack and the Legends Shopping Center and the Great Wolf Lodge. This place is very popular, with identical design as the Rainforest jungle theming and menus very similar. Did not care for anything personnally but if I had children in Kansas City this would be party place for birthdays. It would be that or Chuckee Cheese.I expected this in AK also. I always wonder how well the RF does in the AK location. Does anybody know? I predict TRex will be popular for families with children in the DD location.
Originally Posted By MPierce Thanks for the pictures TDLFAN. I'm sure this place will be a must do for younger aged boys. Maybe some girls also. Here's a link to their menu if anyone is interested. <a href="http://www.trexcafe.com/Main/Eat.htm" target="_blank">http://www.trexcafe.com/Main/E at.htm</a>
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Shouldn't this concept have been done like 15 years ago when the dino craze was at fever pitch? I mean, it seems kind of late...although I guess dinosaurs are always fairly popular. Still, I hate seeing cheap AA's right on Disney property...they just seem more tacky.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I'm not excited by this at all. But I'm sure it is aimed squarely at the stroller brigade and some locals. I think this is the second with the prototype being in Kansas City. < great - that will keep them out of Raglan's next door - which I found to be really really quality this past August.
Originally Posted By Chelledun Thanks for linking the menu. I might go just to make S'mores at my table!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Like Nancy Grace>> <<Yikes! I've never heard of her. Sorry!>> That's shocking really, but consider yourself lucky. She is one crazy woman who is on CNN and acts like she is judge, jury and executioner. She also has a face that reminds of the classic Twilight Zone episode where everyone has a pig face except for the woman in the hospital. Except Nancy wouldn't be the woman! <<I don't know that many TV people. How about we fight over the acting skills of David Caruso?>> He was OK in his one year on NYPD Blue ... I don't watch CSI: Miami (because I know when they are filming at the golf course behind the Manhattan Beach Marriott and claiming it is SoFla and it drives me crazy), so I have no idea how he is on that show. <<No, wait. That would mean that you'd have to take the position that he HAS acting skills. And I couldn't ask that of you.>> Sorry, no position at all. <<Ummm... Jay versus Dave? No. I could argue either side of that one. Never mind.>> I could too. How about Craig vs. Conan? I've met them both, so that factors in, but I have STRONG feelings on this one. <<Okay, okay. Tell me that you hated "Murder, She Wrote," and then it's Game On.>> I didn't watch it regularly. I am not an old fart like you ... did you also watch Matlock? But I could never say anything bad about Mrs. Potts. Very talented, classy old broad. <<Otherwise... I think TDLFAN is going to have to get his jollies somewhere else, and we may have to return this thread to its original (Disney-related) topic!>> I dunno. What is there to talk about this T-Rex thing? Do you know one spirit who is excited about it opening? Or one that hates the idea? I'm totally ambivalent. I doubt I'll ever dine there. It is replacing a parking lot (but hey, some folks prefer asphault over say ... I dunno ... theme parks). I'll just say I hope it's better than what I expect it to be.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<I always wonder how well the RF does in the AK location. Does anybody know?>> VERY good. But not as good as the DD locale, which is No. 1 in the chain (or was when I was told a few years ago) along with the Vegas location. Basically, it's the tourist destinations that saved the chain. It made a HUGE mistake and expanded rapidly in the 1990s ... I know we had a few in SoFla (only one now). I'm sure they're very profitable for Landry's now that they only have about 20 instead of double or triple that at one time (kind of like what Planet Hollywood did ... we had locations in Fort Lauderdale, Coconut Grove and Key West and they all closed within 3-4 years of opening). But if they had to compete in the real world, they would never make it. When I hear of two hour waits at the DD one when you can get a great meal across the walkway at Captain Jack's ... or Raglan Road or Fulton's ... I just don't understand it.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 With Jessica Fletcher posting here, I wonder what happened to my fave Golden Gal ... Bea Arthur ... how I miss her around the LP ... sigh ...
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey <<When I hear of two hour waits at the DD one when you can get a great meal across the walkway at Captain Jack's ... or Raglan Road or Fulton's ... I just don't understand it.>> I've heard lots of bad things about RC, so I have no intention of eating there. Also, I think it's kind of cheesy to bring a chain restaurant into Disney. For a long time I thought RC was unique to WDW, until I visited a friend in Kansas City a few years ago. We walked in the mall and there was an RC. It's not exactly magical when it's sitting in the mall.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Still, I hate seeing cheap AA's right on Disney property...they just seem more tacky.<< Have you seen the AAs they installed inside World of Disney, when they added the Pirate/Princess rooms and the BBB? Yup.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<We walked in the mall and there was an RC. It's not exactly magical when it's sitting in the mall.>> No, it isn't. And I walked by my 'local' RC in my mall today.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey <<Have you seen the AAs they installed inside World of Disney, when they added the Pirate/Princess rooms and the BBB? Yup.>> The one in the Princess room is just creepy. It looks like something out of a horror movie.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>And I walked by my 'local' RC in my mall today.<< OMG Spirit!! Tell me you did NOT go to that horrible Character Warehouse store at Sawgrass...
Originally Posted By monorailfan So they are building a T-Rex cafe in DTD, huh? Here's the scoop: I am an ex-Floridian and ex-FL WDW Annual Passport holder - like most APer's I could write a book on WDW. But a few years ago I moved to the mid-west and get to KC quite often. The T-Rex cafe is located at the Village West complex at the KC Speedway. (BTW, this is a WELL DONE idea. Build a racetrack and develop the area around it - makes for an awesome shopping and entertainment district!) I went to T-Rex when it first opened. The KC area also has a Rainforest Cafe which, when I need a quick WDW-ish fix, the RC will do with a nice dinner. Overall impressions: Underwhelming. The biggest problem T-Rex is going to have, if it turns into a chain, oddly enough is RC. RC was cool because it was a novelty. But with T-Rex, you'll immediately want to compare to RC. And I like RC better. T-Rex is just like an RC, but instead of a single theme, it has about 4 areas (one with rocks & lava, one prehistoric jungles, one ice-age? etc). And they are all so small the theming gets lost. It does not work for me. A mish-mash held together with a dino theme. The food? I like RC's better, but that's just MHO. And the animantronic dinos? Don't expect AK's Dinosaur. More like Ellen's Energy Adventure. Will I go back? Sure, its cool for my kids, and for the midwest, it's a far better and faster option than flying to O-Town or Vegas. But will it knock everyone's socks off at DTD? Unlikely.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Will I go back? Sure, its cool for my kids<< Like Spirit of 74 said.. "geared for the stroller brigade". That's all that matters to the powers in charge.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Have you seen the AAs they installed inside World of Disney, when they added the Pirate/Princess rooms and the BBB? Yup." Yeah, and that was done by Disney, VERY bad!!!
Originally Posted By beamerdog Definitely stroller brigade. When my kids were pre-preteens they thought the AAs were stupid. And they were both really into dinosaurs.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <But if they had to compete in the real world, they would never make it. < we still have 4 in the Chicago area - quite frankly I don't how any but the Woodfield Mall location survive.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 So, people who want their children to be happy, are bad people? I'm not talking about parents who cater to their children. But what's wrong about a happy childhood?
